Handkerchief and tie set and method of making same



Nov. 13,1934. A. TAUSIK 1,980,507

HANDKERCHIEF AND TIE SET AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed May 2, 1953 11I 12 @Q -Z INVENTOR Adolph 7Zw51k I7AM ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 13, 1934UNITED STATES HANDKERCHIEF AND TIE SET AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME AdolphTausik, New York, N. Y.

Application May 2, 1933, Serial No. 668,938

12 Claims.

This invention relates to cloth, usually silk, for the manufacture ofmatching handkerchiefs and tie sets, and to the method of decoratingsuch cloth to permit the separation of handkerchiefs and ties to match,from the same piece of goods.

It has heretofore been found difiicult to produce so-called whitehandkerchiefs having a design thereon, to match with the desiredaccuracy, the color and design of a tie with which the handkerchief issold, to make a tie and handkerchief set. Diiiiculties have beenexperienced, for example, in the matching of the decorating materialsuch as ink or chemicals to produce the desired color. Difficulties havealso been found in the unwarranted expense resulting from comparativelyshort runs in that the decoration of the handkerchief and of the tiehave required separate operations at excessive cost. It has also beenfound impractical to discharge the colors on sufiiciently large areas ofcolored goods to produce white handkerchiefs.

My invention therefore contemplates the formation of the handkerchiefportion and of the tie portion of the set on the same piece of goods, sothat the handkerchief portion may later be severed from the tie portionand made up into finished handkerchiefs by well known ,hemmingoperations, and the tie material may likewise be cut up independently orat the same time, if desired, to produce the tie parts which are laterassembled in the usual manner, but the handkerchief having,nevertheless, a substantially white portion body, or center, togetherwith a colored design. My invention further contemplates that the designor decoration of the white handkerchief exactly matches the design ordecoration of the tie, due to the novel method of coloring-thehandkerchief portion at the same time and with the same ink-and from thesame roller as that with which the tie portion is colored.

- My invention further contemplates the provision of an integral pieceof goods containing both tie and white handkerchief material withprecisely matching designs thereon. My invention further contemplatesthe provision of a simple and efiicient method for producing my novelgoods, and for producing the matching colored ties and whitehandkerchiefs. In what fol-' lows, itwill be understood that by the termwhite, I mean either white or a solid color.

The various objects of my invention will be clear from the descriptionwhich follows, and from the drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view of afragment of a piece of mynovel goods, showing in dash-dot lines wherethe goods may be cut to form ties and handkerchiefs. V

Fig. 2 is a similar view of a handkerchief having a modified designimprinted thereon and adapted to be made from my new goods and by my newprocess.

Fig. 3 is a similar View of a handkerchief having. a modified imprintthereon.

Fig. l is a front elevation of the handkerchief printing portion of aroller by means of which my new goods may be imprinted and my newprocess may be carried out.

It is customary in the trade to cut ties from goods about 24 in width,and to make handkerchiefs about 14" in width. In that practicalembodiment of my invention which I have illustrated by way of example, Itherefore prefer to print the handkerchief portion 11 and the tieportion 12 on a single piece of goods 10 about 38" in width though itwill be understood that ny invention is not limited to this size and isadapted to print larger or smaller widths, depending on the sizes of thehandkerchiefs and ties to' b e produced from the goods 10.

The goods are fed and passed through the printer, dried, and rolled inthe usual manner so that these operations need not be described indetail except to say that the printing rollerhereinafter mentionedcooperates with the usual roller to properly print and feed the goodscontinuously.

However, the tie portion 11 is printed throughout or fully with thedesign 13, but the handkerchief portion -12 is printed only at thedesired areasas 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 1-9, 20,'and 21, to produce ahandkerchief 22 having a white body portion or center 23, and a coloredclecoratedborder, it being understood that the goodslO operated upon ispreferably though not necessarily, originally white.

It will further be understood that for the handkerchief decorated areas14 to 21 inclusive, may be substituted the border'24 or the-pattern 25in the form of a spaced border, or any other border or design which maybe founddesirable, but which leaves the body portion 23 of thehandkerchief substantially in its original, preferably White, color. 4

In carrying out my invention, a printingroller 26 somewhat similar tothe decorating rollers heretofore inv general use is used, but saidroller is substantially modified, as will now. be explained. The tieprinting portion 27 of the roller is of the usual construction, thedesign being engraved thereon-by the usual methods so as toprintcontinuously, and to repeat the design throughout the length of thegoods in the tie portion 11. The handkerchief printing portion 28,however, is recessed, cut away, or depressed so as to leave theunmutilated printing surfaces 29 to print the design portion 14 of onehandkerchief and the portion 18 of the adjacent handkerchief.

Similarly, the unmutilated roller surface 30 prints the area 15 of onehandkerchief and the area 19 of the adjacent handkerchief. In the samemanner, the unmutilated roller portion 31 prints the handkerchief designareas 16 and 20, While the roller portion 32 prints the handkerchiefdesign area 21, and the roller portion 33 prints the design area 17.Between the various areas 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33, the roller is cut awayor recessed as at 34 so that the roller does not, on the recessedportion, take any ink and therefore does not come in contact with thegoods and fails to print any design thereon.

It will be understood that the various handkerchief printing surfaces 29to 33 inclusive of the roller may be shaped as desired to print numerousother designs such as the handkerchief designs 24 and 25, ina mannerwhich will now be obvious to those skilled in the art'.

The goods 10, after being suitably fully printed in the tie portion 11and at the desired areas of the handerchief portion 12, is out on a line35.

running preferably longitudinally of the goods and forming the juncturebetween said portions, to separate said portions 11 and 12. Or suitabletie patterns as 36 and 37 may be superimposed upon the tie section 11,and the tie portion cut up before the severing cut on the line is made,if desired. Similarly, the handkerchiefs imprinted on the section 12 maybe separated by suitable cuts on'the preferably transverse severinglines 38. The completion or assembly of the individual ties andhandkerchiefs may then proceed in the usual manner, which need not bedescribed in detail, being well known in the art. I prefer, however, toso proportion the ties and handkerchiefs that the same number of tiesand a handkerchiefs are obtained from a given yardage of goods.

It will be seen that I have provided goods adapted to be printedcontinuously and in one operation with colored tie material and white,decorated handkerchief material precisely matching each other, that thedesigns on the resulting handkerchiefs and ties cannot fail to match,that onlyone roller and one operation is necessary to print both theties and the handkerchiefs with the resulting substantial economies intime,'labor and material.

It will further be understood that while I have used the term printingin the production of the desired designs on the goods, I mean by thisterm any method by which such designs may be produced and which are wellknown and which may be other than what is narrowly includedin the termprinting. p s

' While I have shown and described certain 5 specific embodiments of myinvention, it will be the juncture of said portions to an edge of thegoods, and adapted to be severed by transverse cuts into handker'chiefsfree of any pattern over the major portion of its area, .the lesser partof said handkerchief portion being decorated repeatedly at spacedintervals with the same ink as the tie portion to match accurately incolor, shade, and design, the decoration of the tie portion, and toleave a substantial part of spaced central areas the handkerchiefportion undecorated, and thereby being adapted to produce white oruncolored handkerchiefs, the decoration of the handkerchief portionmerging into the decoration of the tie portion.

2. An integral piece of goods fully decorated all-over and throughoutthe length of a predetermined portion of its width, said portion beingthereby adapted to be cut up on the bias into ties, and partly decoratedwith the same ink and design to match precisely in shade, color anddesign for the remaining portion of its width at repeated spacedintervals whereby said remaining portion is adapted to be cut up bystraight transverse cuts into partly decorated handkerchiefs perfectlymatching the ties produced from the fully decorated portion and free ofany decoration in their central parts.

3. Combined white handkerchief and tie goods of straight unpatternedweave comprising a completely decorated tie portion'of sufficient widthto permit ties to be cut therefrom on the bias and a partly decoratedand partly white integral handkerchief portion adapted to be severedfrom the tie portion along a longitudinal line and adapted to be furtherseveredfat spaced intervals along parallel transverse lines to produceapproximately the same number of white handkerchiefs as ties andmatching the ties, said partly decorated portion precisely matching thecompletely decorated portion in 'color, shade and pattern, andcomprising rectangular imprints forming a border on the handkerchiefs,and part of the decoration of the partly decorated portion merging withthe decoration of the tie portion.

4. Combined handkerchief and tie goods comi prising a fully decoratedtie portion of sufficient width to produce tie goods from which ties maybe cut on the bias, and a white handkerchief portion integral with butof less width than the tie portion, said white handkerchief portionbeing decorated only on the areas corresponding to the borders of thefinished handkerchiefs with the identical decoration on the tie portionand having blank central areas between the decorated areas, the patternof the inner decorated areas merging with the pattern of the decoratedtie portion. I I 5. Combined woven silk handkerchief and'tie goods forthe production of matching handkerchief and tie sets comprising a tieforming area running throughout the length of the goods and throughoutmore than half of its width, a design in color in said area, ahandkerchief forming area running throughout the length of the goods andof the remaining width of the goods and meeting the tie forming area ona longitudinal line of the goods forming an unmarked severing linebetween said areas, and a design on predetermined portions only of thelatter area identical in color and shade with the design on-the tieforming area and merging therewith and arranged around spacedpredetermined areas of the handkerchief forming portion to leave saidlastmentioned spaced areas blank or undecorated.

6. The method of making combined tie and white handkerchief setscomprising providing a piece of white goods of sufficient width topermit the cutting of ties from part of its width and handkerchiefs fromthe remainder of its width, completely decorating the tie portion with apredetermined design in color, simultaneously decorating predeterminedareas only of the remaining portion with the identical design color andshades to leave white areas, the predetermined areas and the tie portionbeing decorated with a pattern merging thereover, severing the goodslongitudinally between said predetermined areas and the tie portion,cutting ties on the bias from the tie portion, and making transversesevering cuts in said remaining portion to form matching handkerchiefshaving white centers.

7. The method of making combined colored tie and matching whitehandkerchief sets of a single piece of white material comprising fullycoloring a predetermined area of the white goods with a design by ink ofa predetermined color, and simultaneously coloring predeterminedportions only of the remaining area of the goods with the identicaldesign and with the same ink to leave spaced white portions forminghandkerchief centers on said remaining area, and severing the goods on apredetermined longitudinal line, and again on transverse parallel linesof said remaining area.

8. The method of making a tie and handkerchief set comprisingcontinuously feeding a piece of goods, applying a design all over thatportion of the area of said piece of goods extending from one edge to aline beyond the longitudinal center line to form tie goods, andsimultaneously applying the same design to match on the remainder of thegoods between the other edge and said first-mentioned line at repeatedspaced intervals to leave undecorated portions of the material and toproduce handkerchief goods, severing the tie goods from the handkerchiefgoods, making bias cuts in the tie goods to form tie parts and makingparallel transverse cuts in the handkerchief goods to form matchinghandkerchiefs.

9. A piece of silk goods adapted to be cut up to form two different,unrelated but precisely matching sets of articles, said goods having anall-over pattern thereon except at an edge portion thereof ofpredetermined width and having on said edge portion a border formingimprint of said pattern in the general form of a square, said imprintmerging with the all-over pattern, said imprint being of precisely thesame color- K ing, shades and design as said all-over pattern,

the goods inside of the square being blank whereby said portion when cutup into one set of said articles is blank or uncolored except at saidborder, and is provided with a border precisely matching the pattern ofthe other article.

10. A piece of silk goods of 38" width comprising a tie section ofstandard 24" width and having an all-over pattern thereon, and adaptedto be cut on the bias to form ties the remaining 14 width havingprecisely the same pattern in color and shading thereon in the generalform of a series of square borders with blank centers to permit thecutting up thereof, the inner edges of said borders merging with theall-over pattern by straight transverse cuts and a longitudinal cut intoa handkerchief, whereby the handkerchief thus cut from the 14" width isprovided with a border precisely matching the tie cut from the 24"'width in color, shade and design, but is provided with an uncoloredcenter.

11. Silk piece goods of straight unpatterned weave and of sufficientwidth to permit the severing thereof longitudinally into a full Widthtie part from which bias cut ties may be severed and a full widthhandkerchief part severable transversely into straight outhandkerchiefs, the tie part being imprinted with an all-over patternmerging into a border of the same pattern on that portion of thehandkerchief part adjacent the tie part, spaced unprinted portions onthe handkerchief part free of any pattern, and spaced printed patternedareas on the handkerchief part of the same pattern, shape and color asthe tie part and said adjacent portion and in spaced relation to thesaid adjacent portion of the handkerchief part, in spaced relation toeach other and surrounding said pattern-free portions, whereby saidgoods is severable into a plurality of matching tie and handkerchiefsets.

12. Silk piece goods of sufiicient width to permit the severing thereoflongitudinally into a full width tie part from which bias cut ties maybe severed and a full width handkerchief part severable transversely atright angles to the edge of the goods into straight out handkerchiefsafter the severing of the tie part from the handkerchief part, the tiepart being imprinted with an all-over design, the handkerchief partbeing imprinted only in part with the same design and having partsthereof unprinted with said design whereby the handkerchiefs and tiessevered from the goods precisely match each other as to design, colorand shade.

ADOLPH TAUSIK.

